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Imaging studies also make clear that it isn't just dangers or tragic events that cement memory formation. Positive emotions, which are also mediated through the amygdala, have the same effect. Again, that's a perfectly reasonable evolutionary development. If eating or having sex makes you happy, you'll remember that and do it again, keeping yourself healthy and passing on your genes as well...
...need to ape the Europeans?'" I ask her. She looks bruised, and I wonder if she's going to cry. "I don't make up the rules. I just pass them along," she says. "I truly believe that without these rules, humanity is in for a tragic loss. Every single rule of etiquette, every single rule of protocol, every single rule having to do with any kind of social grace comes from one underlying rule, which was respect and hospitality for another person." I am suddenly ashamed. I resolve to come to a greater understanding of the fish fork...
...Robinson lived in Zimbabwe until he was 16, when he was awarded a United World Scholarship to study in Norway for two years. “My time in Norway was incredibly important to me,” he said. Although it was “a tragic time politically in Zimbabwe,” he said he was grateful to spend two years at Red Cross Nordic United World College and see the world’s challenges from an international perspective. In fall 2002, he enrolled at Harvard, where his experiences in Zimbabwe and Norway...
Despite the tangible presence of reminders of the Third Reich all over Berlin - from the bullet-scarred buildings near the Reichstag to the converted Wehrmacht communications headquarters in which my daughter's school is located - its tragic history is, at the same time, oddly invisible. Depictions of Adolf Hitler and Nazi symbols are mostly outlawed in Germany, and it remains something of a taboo to mention him in day-to-day conversation. So, it has been a bit of a shock in recent days to see posters plastered on subway walls advertising Mein Fuhrer, a new film about the German...
...surges another 20, 30 or whatever number he's going to, into Baghdad, it'll be a tragic mistake. But as a practical matter, there is no way to say, 'Mr. President, stop...